Bellator 74 set for Sept. 28 in Atlantic City with welterweight tourney start

Officials recently announced the fight card for Atlantic City, N.J., at Caesars. The main card will feature the start of the promotion’s Season 7 welterweight tournament.

And while a full lineup for the 170-pound tourney is yet to be revealed, one of the eight participants is known – former welterweight champ Lyman Good (12-2 MMA, 5-2 BFC).

Tickets for Bellator 74 are on sale through Ticketmaster and at the Caesars Atlantic City box office and are priced from $52-165. Bellator has made Atlantic City a regular stop starting in Season 4. Bellator 74 will be the promotion’s seventh visit to the city and fourth trip to Caesars.

Bellator 74 gets a live main card broadcast on MTV2 at 8 p.m. ET on Sept. 28, as well as in HD on EPIX. Prelims will stream on Spike.com.

“Caesars Atlantic City has become a second home to Bellator, so kicking off our seventh season in New Jersey was a very easy decision to make,” Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney stated. “Atlantic City is a classic fight town and New Jersey is a hotbed for mixed martial arts, so our fans should expect another great night of fights.”

Good, a native of nearby New York, looks to build on the momentum of a 13-second knockout of LeVon Maynard this past April at Bellator 65 that punched his ticket into the Season 7 tournament.

Good was the first Bellator welterweight tournament winner, taking the title at Bellator 11 in June 2009 to become the promotion’s first 170-pound champion. Good rolled through the Season 7 tournament with three stoppages. But in his first defense of the title, he lost a unanimous decision to current champ Ben Askren at Bellator 33.

Starting with that loss, Good has alternated wins and losses with a decision win over Chris Lozano in the Season 4 welterweight tournament quarterfinals, but a split decision loss to Rick Hawn in the semis.

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